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Very excited for the start of Research Reboot of #Tuberculosis on Keystone Symposia 50th Anniversary! keysym.us/KSTBReboot22 #KSTBReboot22 Looking forward to your talks Nadège Nziza Maphe Mthembu, PhD👩‍🔬🧬🧫 and so many others!

Great opportunity for Africa-based early career researchers at NIH. Please re-circulate. CAPRISA Africa Health Research Institute @POHER_USA African Association Of Future Gastroenterologists Prof. Thumbi Ndung'u Lindi Masson @BlackInMicro Sinaye Ngcapu Ragon Institute Mass General Center for Global Health MGH Division of Infectious Diseases Tulio de Oliveira ASM Newsroom

(1/4) Did you know that there are bacteria in human tumors? Well, this is old news now 😊. Our new study, featured on the cover of Cell, shows that human tumors contain fungi as well and that tumor fungi matter! (Cover by Marzia Munafò) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

How to ace your cardiology interview

Got a + SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amp test (NAAT) result ≥45 days after an initial + result? How do you distinguish persistent RNA detection from genuine reinfection? Read our new paper (big collab w/ @mghid, @mghpath, @sabetilab 🥳) in @cidjournal: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar… 👀🧵👇

We’re hiring. Brigham and Women’s Infectious Diseases is looking for an experienced outpatient nurse to join our team. A healthy mix of HIV, STI, hepatitis, general ID/OPAT with direct patient care. You’ll get to work with amazing people like Paul Sax MGB Infectious Diseases Fellowship and so many more partners.taleo.net/careersection/…

As consultants, sometimes the issue that we are following is out of sync with the patient’s overall clinical trajectory. When this happens, I try extra hard to keep my language in-sync with the primary team. Here’s how:

Great opportunity for college students & recent graduates interested in Infectious Disease!

Great ID consult coming up.

Dr. Randy Curtis J Randall Curtis UW PulmCritCareSleep UW Medicine, outstanding teacher, researcher, clinician & mentor in palliative care, died from ALS Feb. 6. He was exemplary in his dedication to family, students, patients & colleagues. His academic legacy: bitlylinks.com/eMxWei5bh

Every time an infectious disease consult note is copy pasted into a discharge summary, the ID specialist should get $50

Congratulations, Maphe Mthembu, PhD👩‍🔬🧬🧫 and team on the acceptance of our manuscript "Discrepancy between Mtb-specific IGNg and IgG responses in HIV-positive people with low CD4 counts": authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S23… Such a pleasure to work with you!!! Emily Wong, MD Prof. Thumbi Ndung'u

Why is Narcan a critical public health tool for our overdose crisis? Well something like 70K Americans died from fentanyl OD last year alone. Every single one of those overdoses was treatable and reversible. Nobody dies from opioid OD in medical settings because we can treat them

Congratulations, Dr. Goldstein! 🤩

On vaccines, The Economist today economist.com/leaders/2023/1… "They are molecular loving-kindness"

Very excited for #IDWeek2023. Kicking it off with the TB workshop this morning - fantastic lectures and case discussion!

1/8 Preview of revised IDSA Complicated UTI Guidelines, including simpler definition ("infection beyond the bladder"). Men CAN have an uncomplicated UTI.

Finishing #IDWeek2023 with a full brain and brimming heart. Wonderful to meet and reunite with so many great people.

Remarkable RCT from Norway demonstrating that starting HCV treatment in the hospital with newly diagnosed HCV among PWIDs is superior to deferring therapy to outpatient care in achieving HCV cure. Results argue for broader use. Håvard Midgard SELIHEP doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

It's one of our favorite times of the year: fellowship application season! 😎 To learn more about the Mass General Brigham Infectious Diseases Fellowship, please visit mghbwhid.hms.harvard.edu.